A lovely Jaffa drizzle cake to cheer up your day

In my opinion, there’s only so much fresh fruit that you can consume so why not make an orange flavoured cake? That has to count towards your five a day- right?

So thats the cake justification out of the way although we all know there’s always a good reason to eat cake!

This Jaffa drizzle cake is one of my current favourite cakes.  It is a lovely twist on the more traditional lemon drizzle cake and the chocolate topping sets it off beautifully.

Its really easy to make too although I did give myself a nasty cut when I was zesting the oranges so do take care with that bit!

If you want to give it a go- here’s what you will need:

Ingredients

• 140g butter, softened
• 200g self-raising flour
• 11⁄2 tsp baking powder
• 200g golden caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 5 tbsp milk
•  zest of an orange

For the topping

• 4 tbsp orange juice
• 50g golden caster sugar
• 50g dark chocolate
• 1 tsp butter

Instructions

• Pre- heat the oven to 180C
• Line a 1-2 litre loaf tin
• Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy
• add the milk, eggs and orange zest and beat well
• Beat in the flour and baking powder until everything is well combined
• Pour the mixture into the lined tin and level the top
• bake in the oven for 40-45 mins or until it springs back when gently pressed and a skewer comes out clean after being inserted
• mix the orange juice and sugar and warm in a pan until melted
• remove from the oven and pierce all over with the skewer
• Pour over the orange juice and sugar mixture and allow to cool in the tin
• Melt the chocolate and stir in the butter
• Spread over the top of the cake

Crack the cake open and share – I bet you will love it!